November 2008
10 posts
Noah Baumbach’s autobiographical divorce tale “The Squid and the Whale” is more realistic and therapeutic than entertaining or insightful.
The Wire season 2: this 12 hour feature film entwines you in overlapping nets, then leans on exposition to tie it up & cut free in 2 hours.
“The Wire pays back the attention you invest in it like few pieces of art created in my lifetime.” - Merlin Mann (http://twurl.nl/1d3n8l)
Merlin Mann’s article “Writing Into Your Arc” uses “The Wire” as an example for blogging and writing of all kinds. http://twurl.nl/1d3n8l
“every scene matters (whether) in a screenplay, or an Excel spreadsheet, or the Tweet that you’re about to type.” (http://twurl.nl/1d3n8l)
Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” is a fiction about fiction portraying fiction within blurred fiction searching for reality & truth.
Sean Ellis’ “Cashback” (2006) cunningly adapts cinema’s temporal nature to freeze time in this reflective and timeless supermarket romance.
John Turturro’s sometimes-musical “Romance & Cigarettes” feels disjointed, like an experimental student film with a stellar cast.
3 minutes into the pilot episode of “Jericho” we’ve decided it’s utterly unwatchable.
long takes sculpt the human landscape of “Big Night” (1996), painted by a cast pulling us into each living moment, delicious and poignant.